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The featured speaker was Shawn Watts (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law and the former Associate Director of Columbia Law School’s Meditation Program.

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 British lawmakers voted to reject the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Professor William Burke-White offers his reaction to the results and examines possible next steps.

Penn Law’s Quattrone Center
, along with the Baltimore’s City State’s Attorney’s Office, Police Department, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore City, and the University of Baltimore Innocence Project Clinic, have released a root cause analysis report on the case of Malcolm J. Bryant, who was convicted of murder in 1999 and exonerated in 2016 after DNA tests proved his innocence.

During this busy and successful year, they took on important public interest projects, made their voices heard on major issues in local and national government, gained hands-on practice experience through a variety of experiential learning programs, won cases, competitions, fellowships, and more.

The documentary was the result of a joint effort between the Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law
(“Docs&theLaw”), of which Professor Austin is the director, Lifers, Inc. at Graterford State Correctional Institution, and the Pennsylvania Prison Society.

The Law School is launching the program in response to series of 2017 recommendations from the ABA, which addressed the burgeoning levels of stress, depression, and substance abuse within the legal profession.